Careers

Working directly with clients’ key decision makers and company owners helps you gain a better understanding of the challenges facing clients, and allows you to see firsthand the positive impact your work can have on the client’s business.  As a member of the audit team, you may provide the following services for clients:

Accounting Services
You will help clients improve the quality of their financial reporting. You will deal with the form and content of financial statements and provide guidance on financial accounting matters.  You will meet with clients regularly throughout the year to have on-going interaction with them.

Audit Services
You will be part of a team offering a tailored audit approach that incorporates new risk assessment standards with a strong emphasis on early planning and knowing how clients’ businesses function.  Each engagement is distinct-- you could work on assignments such as performing an inventory observation for a retail firm or researching the appropriate treatment of a financial transaction for a real estate development company.   In most cases, you will be exposed to a broad assortment of industries before selecting a specialty, should you decide to do so.

Our audit approach involves:

Understanding the client

You will learn to understand clients’ needs and expectations, their business and industry, accounting and control systems, personnel, company values and industry-related GAAP and GAAS issues.

Risk Assessment

You will perform an assessment of inherent risks, an evaluation of the client’s internal control structure and the subsequent assessment of control risk, and an assessment of the effectiveness of the client’s procedures in controlling and detecting risk.

Audit procedures

You will perform substantive tests and tests of internal controls to identify and resolve accounting or reporting issues.

Communications

We communicate closely and regularly with the client’s audit committee, CFO, controller and accounting staff during the audit process. From preliminary audit planning and work, through delivery of reports and communication of internal control related materials, you will have responsibility for keeping your clients informed.

Audit tools

You will use field audit software programs to simplify the routine aspects of audit work.  We've developed tailored internal control review techniques and forms as part of the McGladrey Audit Performance System (MAPS) and developed industry-specific audit programs that you will tailor, as a member of the engagement team, to address critical risks specific to each client.